This sample score report shows a student’s best performance on the Smarter Balanced Assessments for English Language Arts (ELA)/Literacy and Mathematics. It also shows whether a student has reached proficiency in the different areas of ELA and math, and suggests how the family can help him or her improve in these areas.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium provides this scoring guide to help educators understand how to score some of the short-text mathematics items that were included on the 2014 Smarter Balanced Field Test. While most of the test items administered as part of the Smarter Balanced assessments are machine-scored, some items must be scored by trained scorers using a process commonly called hand scoring.